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Have you seen any figures or is that just anecdotal from what you’ve seen?

That’s pretty nice. I finally managed to pick one up last month for £4.80 incl. postage. Perfect condition barring a few bag marks on Her Majesty’s cheeks!

What I don’t know is how could the one for sale via LCA be one of only two possible examples? How could two coins be released with the error but not more?

Nice going! Like you I’m after these types of coins for the thrill of the chase. Anything else is achievable if you want to pay for it. These you have to put the hours in searching for! However, what about the 2007 £2 technological achievements in BU which like 1999 wasn’t included in any sets and then also the 2007 abolition of slavery £2 without initials which wasn’t included in the sets! Im also after the 2009 10p mule however I’ve only seen evidence of it in a LCA auction in 2015!

Thanks all, in the end I tried just soap and water and it’s come away beautifully!

I’ve recently come across the below dot to dot, and whilst it’s in lovely condition (the photo was just a quickie and doesn’t do it justice), it has a hideous fingerprint. Again the photo doesn’t show it but it’s got lovely toning as well. Has anyone ever tried cleaning a fingerprint off? I’ve never tried for obvs reasons but given it’s a relatively youthful coin think shall I? Would acetone shift it? Just some soap and water? I’ve never faced this predicament before!

I first got into numismatics with this idea that coins could be an investment. I quickly lost that view and then bought coins for the pleasure of it, enjoying holding them, imagining the history of who had used them etc. I have made a decent sum from trading recent decimals, but only through constantly scouring eBay, reading the mintage figures released by the RM and following trends and identifying possible future growth coins has that been possible. Coins like gold will never produce anything, they’ll never pay a dividend and are driven by fashion in terms of the price they will yield, so any investment is purely a punt that there’s someone who will pay more for the coin than you did in the future and is therefore not an investment but speculation. Like stuntman, my investment monies go on accumulation passive trackers and growth shares (buy Bango BGO!) There will be a downturn, but I’ll still get my divis/ greater buying opportunities.

What a brilliant season and series. And finally saw the Christmas episode last night, strange to see an episode in the rain and mud!

It’s not on sky catch up unfortunately.

Yeah but this was after the initial hysteria that kicked off in February 2014 for the kew. The prices did drop and then gradually grow again! I still remember buying my new for £4.63 incl. of eBay fees!

Brilliant! I still need to see the Xmas episode!!

Good to see a third though supposedly final series being filmed at the moment!!

My thoughts are with you @Rob http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/the-rare-new-%C2%A31-coin-worth-%C2%A33000-and-the-window-cleaner-who-has-found-one/ar-BBDXzaE?ocid=spartandhp

I've checked 9, eight of which are smooth to the left and one has the reeding to the left

Where is the micro lettering? Is it visible to the naked eye as I can't see anything and don't have any form of magnification available!

Yes, I haven't received any in change to date in Manchester but they seem to be awash with them in Dorset. Yet none of the 33? banks to release the coins were anywhere near Dorset!

Should!

I've had about 20 so far, has anyone picked up any anomalies so far? All mine to date have been consistent.

I had no idea! Thanks

Surely though it does need to have the denomination stated. Aside from knowing that 50p coins are that colour and shape / design, surely anyone accepting the coin is doing so based upon custom and practice rather than a legal guarantee of the value of the token and what is to say that whoever they then attempted to use that coin with would accept it?

Up to £82 now for completed items on ebay!

And how exactly does that differ to the Royal mint? The only thing worse is the daily Google animation celebrating for instance the '166th year anniversary of the death of Frederick Samburgh' ?

Albeit both Kew and the undated 20p only returned a profit on the secondary market, I've come around to this conclusion, added to that the dodgy press releases i.e the HMS Belfast release, to boost up interest / sow the idea that they're investment pieces amongst the public and then you generate sales from the RM in the hope/expectation, coupled with the sheer number of commemoratives that have been released this year and you've got a good income generator! sorry for the poor grammar, I've had one or two Fursty Ferrets!

Yeah I got one in change today, I've noticed with all £2 coins that I've taken from circulation recently that would otherwise be BU if not for the flaw whereby they have a "halo" - a circular scratch / scuff that goes all the way around the queen's portrait.

I don't know if it's the one you mean but there's "just uncirculated UK" who does exactly as you say. Even selling the card inserts!